1900 
THE NEW YORK STATE FAIR. 
The passage of the State Fair bill at 
Albany last week, as reported in The R. 
N.-Y., Is creating considerable criticism 
from certain quarters. This is largely 
due to the radical change made in the bill 
at the last moment. Governor Roosevelt 
had promised the representative of the 
farmers’ organizations of the State that 
he favored the original bill, placing the 
management of the Fair in the hands of 
the Agricultural Department, with an ad¬ 
visory board of nine, to be appointed by 
the Governor. He also advised these rep¬ 
resentatives that he would veto a bill, 
should it be laid before him, to place the 
management of the Fair in the hands of 
a special commission. Notwithstanding 
these assurances, at the last moment a 
bill was reported by the Legislature, ac¬ 
companied by a special message from the 
Governor, which places the management 
of the Fair in the hands of a commission 
of 11, six of whom are to be appointed by 
the Governor. This bill has passed both 
branches of the Legislature, and will un¬ 
doubtedly receive the signature of the 
Governor. The Lieutenant-Governor, and 
the Commissioner of Agriculture, are ex- 
officio members of the commission. The 
remaining nine are to be appointed by the 
Governor, one of whom shall be a mem¬ 
ber of the State Grange, one a member of 
the State Association of County Agricul¬ 
tural Societies, and one a member of the 
Union Association of Agricultural Socie¬ 
ties. It has been informally agreed that 
the first board shall be made up of the 
Master of the State Grange, the Presi¬ 
dent of the State Breeders’ Association, 
President of the State Dairymen’s Asso¬ 
ciation, representative of the Eastern 
New York Horticultural Society, repre¬ 
sentative of the Western New York Hor¬ 
ticultural Society, a representative of the 
horse-breeding interests, and another 
member to be selected from Syracuse, on 
account of the local interest there in the 
Fair. These representatives, including 
the Lieutenant-Governor, the Commis¬ 
sioner, and the presidents of the county 
and town associations, would need but one 
member to be provided. 
The conveyance of the real estate held 
by the State Agricultural Society to the 
State is accepted, and the members of the 
commission are to serve without compen¬ 
sation; their necessary and legitimate ex¬ 
penses while attending to the State of¬ 
ficial duties, however, to be paid by the 
State. The commission is given the 
power to hold a State Fair at such times 
as it is deemed proper, and to publish the 
time of holding the same in January of 
each year, after this year. The commis¬ 
sion is given the power to grant free ad¬ 
mission to the Fair Grounds to the life 
members of the State Agricultural Society. 
The commission is also given power to ap¬ 
point the superintendent of State Fair, 
and assistants, and to regulate their duties 
and salaries, and makes them subject to 
removal at the pleasure of the commis¬ 
sion. At the close of the Fair it is 
obliged to pay into the State Treasury any 
balances remaining in its hands, and to 
make a detailed and itemized statement of 
receipts and disbursements. County or 
local associations holding a fair during 
the week in which the State Fair is held 
are to be deprived of State money; and 
premiums amounting to $1,000 are to be 
awarded annually to the best exhibits of 
county and town associations. 
Just why this bill was substituted for 
the original one is not entirely clear. The 
objections to that bill were largely due to 
the fact that the commissioner, while re¬ 
sponsible for the management of the Fair, 
was provided with an advisory board of 
nine, whose opinions were likely to be con¬ 
flicting, and consequently likely to de¬ 
moralize the management to some extent. 
The present bill is certainly open to abuses. 
Under the present pressure by the agri¬ 
cultural interests, and the evidently earn¬ 
est intentions of the Lieutenant-Governor, 
the first board is likely to be a represen¬ 
tative one. Three of the members, how¬ 
ever, will hold office for only one year; 
three for two years, and three for three 
years, and if the interest in the mean¬ 
time should flag it would afford an oppor¬ 
tunity to place men on the commission 
who are not really representatives of the 
agricultural classes, and Governors yet to 
be elected may find an opportunity to con¬ 
trol the commission for political purposes 
through their power to select a majority 
of the commission. 
The Legislature has appropriated $11,000 
for erecting a m^ch-needed dwelling-house 
for the Director of the State Experiment 
Station at Geneva. It also appropriated 
$8,000 for agricultural experiments at the 
Geneva Station. The Legislature appro¬ 
priated the $98,000 collected from the rac¬ 
ing associations, to be distributed among 
the county and town agricultural societies, 
ft appropriated $75,000 to pay beet-sugar 
bounties this year. The' law has also 
been passed preventing gambling on the 
grounds of any fair association in the 
State. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
The Governor has reappointed the fol¬ 
lowing members of the State Board of 
Control of the Geneva Experiment Sta¬ 
tion: A. C. Chase, Syracuse; F. O. Cham¬ 
berlain, Canandaigua; Hon. F. C. Schraub, 
Lowville, and Nicholas Hallock, Long 
Island, and has also appointed Edgar G. 
Dusenbury, Portville, Cattaraugus County, 
to succeed Dr. G. Howard Davison; also 
Martin L. Allen, of Fayetteville, Seneca 
County, to succeed W. C. Barry, and Oscar 
H. Hale, of Stockholm, to succeed Mr. 
Ives. 
MARKET BRIEFS. 
Picked Up Here and There. 
ON THE FALL RIVER LINE DOCK I 
saw a quantity of barbed wire made by a 
Worcester, Mass., company; 300 coils were 
for Portland, Oregon; another 300 were 
marked Guaymas, Mexico; 100, Maracaibo, 
South America; and 400 were bound for 
Auckland, New Zealand. The first lot was 
of the two-barb variety; the others the 
four-barb. 
A PROFITABLE DELAY.—It is not 
often that a great delay in the arrival of 
a shipment brings much gain to the owner. 
This occurrred, however, in the case of the 
bark Ancona, which recently arrived at 
Boston from the Philippines, after a voy 
age of 150 days, having on board 18,300 bales 
of hemp. The price of this product has ad¬ 
vanced greatly during the past few months, 
and the cargo is now worth nearly $800,000, 
making a big margin of profit on its value 
at the time the bark sailed from Manila 
SPITZENBURG APPLES are now quoted 
the highest in the market, the top figure 
being $6 per barrel. Fancy Spy and Green¬ 
ing come next, and Ben Davis and Baldwin 
are even in the race, the highest wholesale 
price being $4.50. Some extra large speci 
mens of Ben Davis are offered. Apples lose 
their beautiful natural bloom after being 
handled, and they are wiped and polished 
with cloths to make them presentable for 
the fruit stands. Ben Davis, with his 
leathery hide and corky interior, takes a 
shine equal to a dude’s patent leathers. 
HOLLAND CHEESE FOR CUBA. 
Trade with Havana is on the increase. On 
a ferryboat I saw a truckload of cheese 
made in Holland, which was being carted 
from the German Line steamers, which 
land at Hoboken, N. J„ to the Cuban line 
on the New York side. The truckman said 
that there were several thousand boxes in 
the shipment. These boxes were about 18 
inches square and four inches deep, con¬ 
taining four cheeses. An auger hole In 
one side of the box covered with a wire 
screen, furnished ventilation, and a con 
spicuous sign on each box warned against 
storing them near the engine room on 
board steamer. 
NOTES ON SUNDRY PRODUCTS.—A 
recent shipment of railroad construction 
material from this country to Hongkong, 
China, was valued at $50,000. It is said 
that our shipments of wire and cut nails 
and iron pipe to China and Japan this 
season are the largest on record. 
Pig tin has advanced about $10 per ton in 
London. In five-ton lots for present de 
livery, it is quoted here at 30 to 31 cents. 
.Buyers of copper are quite 
active, especially for foreign account. 
The highest figure mentioned is 17 cents. 
.Furnace men report a good 
business in pig iron, the top quotation for 
No. IX northern being $23. 
Turpentine dealers are looking for im 
proved trade with the coming of Spring. 
The new crop movement in the producing 
sections is expected to be backward. The 
present price is 55V£ to 56 cents per gallon. 
Business in tar is light. Quotations run 
from $2 to $3.75 per barrel.Cit 
ric acid has dropped three cents per pound. 
This is obtained from the lemon and simi¬ 
lar fruits. The decline in price was caused 
by sharp competition.Grain 
alcohol is down one cent per gallon, first 
quality now being $2.41.The 
cotton-thread combination has increased 
its capital stock from $3,750,000 to $5,000,000. 
This practically controls the cotton-thread 
trade of the world.Exports of 
lumber from San Francisco for the first 
two months of this year were 2,122,000 feet 
The greatest quantity went to Australia 
845,000 feet. 
PINEAPPLES, ONIONS AND HORSE¬ 
RADISH AT AUCTION.—The first auction 
sale of pineapples from Havana took place 
on the dock of the Ward Line steamers In 
this city April 3. There were 1,000 barrels 
in the lot. Two barrels branded first qual¬ 
ity, containing 37 pines each, sold at 30 
cents per pine. The others sold at prices 
ranging from seven to 16 cents each. There 
were also 300 crates of Havana onions sold 
at the same place at $1.45 to $1.55 per crate. 
The quality was good. A shipment of 178 
barrels of horseradish was recently re¬ 
ceived from Missouri. Sixty barrels were 
sold at auction at 6% cents per pound. 
The remainder was disposed of at private 
sale, one commission man taking 75 bar¬ 
rels. The roots were six to eight inches 
long, and averaged not far from an inch In 
diameter. I saw one 2% inches through, 
but there were few such overgrown speci¬ 
mens. The bulk of the oranges received in 
this market are disposed of at auction. 
Catalogues are printed giving the names of 
the brands, and samples of each different 
line are opened some time before the sale 
to give the people a chance to inspect the 
goods. The selling is quickly done, as 
buyers know what they want and how 
much they v/ill pay. w. w. h. 
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